Holy or Unholy, Jews and Right in an Alliance 
by Philip Weiss, Common Dreams, September 21, 2002 (from 9/23/02 New York Observer)
Right after 9/11, I made a bold prediction: that the small number of players who determine American policy in the Middle East would soon be joined by a broadly based peace faction which recognizes that the Arab-Israeli conflict threatens American security. I was wrong. The number of players remains small. If they’ve made room at the table for anyone, it hasn’t been peaceniks, but hawkish Christians. The reason I was wrong is that I didn’t reckon on the strength of the Zionist lobby. As it demonstrated by helping to bankroll successful challengers to two incumbent Congressmen who had spoken out for Palestinian rights—Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and Earl Hilliard of Alabama—the Zionist lobby is powerful and focused.

A country held captive
By Yoel Marcus, Ha'aretz, September 20, 2002 
It's very sad, this Mitzna business with the empty chairs, and now the illegal donations. Because it proves that not only is there no room in the political arena for people with good intentions, but also for people who think differently. Our democracy has been commandeered by one man. We are not talking about a dictator who has taken over the country by military force. On the contrary. We are talking about a nice man, a white-haired grandpa with a little paunch and a pleasant manner. A man with a sense of humor, and most importantly, a crowd-pleaser. He was elected by the largest number of votes ever cast for a politician in Israel. But within a year and half of taking office, he has established an autocracy, a government of one.

Somnolence to Palestinian Atrocities
By Girard Newkirk, Media Monitors Network, September 21, 2002
The last week in the Middle East has with pristine clarity illuminated the bias of the American media regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  I observed for days as Israeli tanks indiscriminately destroyed homes and businesses in Palestinian settlements while killing dozens of Palestinians.  In one case there was a man, while on his way to buy cigarettes, was maliciously gunned down by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces because apparently the threat of a Palestinian man possessing tobacco and paper warrant a fusillade of bullets.  While all of these untenable actions were being carried out by the Israeli government, the paucity of media coverage regarding these incidents in lieu of treating them with the same intensity and anathema as Palestinian suicide bombers incite is troubling.

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By Jeff Halper, The Link, September - October  2002
Consider a prison: If you look at a blueprint of a prison, it looks like the prisoners own the place. They have 95 percent of the territory. The prisoners have the living areas. They have the cafeteria, the visiting area, the exercise yard. All the prison authorities have is 5 percent: the surrounding walls, the cell bars, a few points of control, the keys to the door. The prison authorities do not need 20 or 30 percent of the territory to control the inmates. They only need to control the strategic points.

Let the UN Inspectors in – Israel, this means you!
By Justin Raimondo, Media Monitors Network, September 20, 2002
The recent conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened with an announcement that Cuba would become a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The last three hold-outs in the world are Israel, India, and Pakistan. The Arab states, led by Iraq, have proposed that Israel should sign on as part of a framework for peace in the Middle East, but the Israelis want to hold on to their weapons of mass destruction.

Six Weeks of Quiet?
By Chris Meyer, Palestine Chronicle, September 19, 2002
"The Israeli government reserves the right to be just as outraged at the loss of an Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldier, gunning down a Palestinian family on the West Bank, as at the loss of an unarmed civilian in Tel Aviv ..": (PC) - In an article in the New York Times entitled, "Suicide Bomber Kills Israeli Soldier, Ending 6 Weeks of Quiet", Michael R. Gordon 'reports' on a suicide bombing in Israel. By his choice of topics and viewpoints, Gordon also does an excellent job of illustrating the typical level of Israeli propaganda in American mainstream media. On the bright side, it is nice to see someone acknowledge that over 3 million Palestinians have shown truly heroic restraint in the face of the most brutal and continuing occupation on the planet for a solid 6 weeks. The only significant news of terrorism reported by the American media recently was a nail bomb attack on a Palestinian school - but that was done by fundamentalist Jewish terrorists, not Palestinians.

Diary from Nablus, Day 89: The Wedding
By Amer Abdelhadi, Palestine Chronicle, September 20, 2002
(PC) - Sireen dreamed of a big wedding party, in a big hall, so all her friends and relatives coult attend; she wanted the big cake, the music, the dance and the happiness. Born and raised in Nablus, Sireen had given up on throwing the party in a hall. “First I can’t throw a party in any public hall because a mother of a young martyr could hear the music and cry over her young boy who was killed before having a chance to grow up and have his own wedding” Sireen said “And second, I wouldn’t get so many people in one place because that could jeopardize everything if the army busts us.